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Turkey‘s Foreign Ministry called in the top US diplomat in Ankara on Monday after a news report over the weekend claimed Washington was spying on its NATO ally.The report, by German weekly Der Spiegel, followed another article by Spiegel in August, which said Germany also spied on Turkey, sparking high-level meetings …

The UK government raised its terror threat level Friday from “substantial” to “severe,” the fourth highest of five levels, in response to events in Iraq and Syria, where ISIS militants have seized a swath of territory. “That means that a terrorist attack is highly likely, but there is no intelligence …

Turkey’s unrivaled leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan was sworn in Thursday as the country’s first publicly elected president, heralding a new political order in a critical Western ally after a monthslong campaign to consolidate power. A flurry of ceremonies in the capital marked Mr. Erdogan’s accession from prime minister to head of state …

Nouri al-Malki, the embattled prime minister of Iraq, announced on Thursday that he was stepping down after support from his party and associates in parliament slipped away. In a speech, Iraq’s two-term leader ×Maliki said that he accepted the candidacy of Haider al-Abadi, nominated last week by the Iraqi president to form a government. Maliki had been …